职场中，当上级在会议等场合中使用短语 “take something offline” 时，是在告诉某人 “不要再谈论一件事情，会后私下再说”。这个短语经常与 “let's” 搭配，用来表示命令或请求，即 “Let's take it offline.（让我们私下里谈这件事情）”。

 

例句

I understand that this is a really important issue for you, Sandra, but it's not the focus of this meeting. Let's take it offline and talk about it afterwards.

我知道这对你来说是一个非常重要的问题，珊德拉，但这并不是会议的重点。我们私底下再接着谈。

 

Derek started talking inappropriately about members of the other team, but thankfully our manager told him to take it offline.

德里克开始谈论另一支团队的成员，说了些不合适的话，但幸好我们的经理让他别再说下去了。

 

After our manager told me to take it offline, I thought she would talk to me later about it – but she clearly just wanted me to stop talking.

我们的经理让我私下再谈，我本以为她稍后会和我讨论这件事情，但显然她当时只是想让我住口。